Monday, June 15, 2009

FINALY!

I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT I FINALLY FINISHED IT! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! I'm too happy. Okay I know perhaps there's gonna be a nitpick but most importantly isw I did my best. And I FINISHED ITTTT!!!AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! I'm sorry I'm just too happy. I'm quite proud of what I did. Hehe. Hopefully those who watch will enjoy my animation as well!!
It has been a very tiring and stressful weekend. Actually I'm quite surprise that I can finish this because during the weekend I have been quite busy with other stuff as well. But you know after doing my personla stuff, I stayed up late to do finish this project. Hehehe. I guess the hard part for this is the music. I'm really not a music person so it is quite a challenge for me. I hope that the music in my final piece isn't weird. Yeah.
Okay now I gotta get ready for my presentation! WISH ME LUCK!!!!

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

STRESSS

I thought that i am going to finish it by last week but I guess I didn't. And I am going crazy soon. I have been doing this particular scene ever since Saturday and it doesn't turn out good which means I have to redo it. AAAARRGGHH!!! I don't know why I;m taking longer than usual to animate. I have been feeling restless and unmotivated. It's really not the kind of feeling you want to have. I have been forcing myself really hard to do my work. On top of that, I have Character Design to worry about. Why can't p3 be a module of it's own? I'm sorry for whining and complaining. I just need to let it out so that I feel better. Besides that feeling of unmotivated-ness, I have been feeling so tired lately. Tired and sleepy. Work work work all day. But you know it's fine because Monday is submission. I will be able to finish it by then no doubt about it. Yes confidence. I need my holiday!!! OKay right now I have to goback to work. I just hope I am able to finish 3 scenes by today and then I'm only left with 1 more scene to go and Im done! Oh yeah music and fixing old scenes. But is fine. One step at the time.

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Presentation which I present

So I presented today...It's a very looong presentation. I was the last one to present. I'm not sure if I presented well enough because I didn't hear a good comment like 'Your progress is good' or 'I think you're character is nice' or whatever. Okay I don't really need the comment but it would be nice to hear those especially I admit I colored most of my scenes and my animaton isn't all that bad. Anyway, I didn't get bad comment also, only some things that needs to be change. Oh well...I take it as everything is fine then. Here are the things that I need to change:
  1. Makri's bedroom window needs to be bigger and lower.
  2. The inside of his bedroom needs to be darker than the outside so that it doesn't look like a picture frame (yeah it still looks like a picture frame)
  3. The leaves of the tree should move a bit so that it doesnt look stagnant and all.
  4. Atun's shadow should be lighter and not so distinct. Amanda said shadow need not be there can be done with just fruits dropping. I dunno what I'm gonna do for this part.
  5. Should have a little bit of monkey sound when ATun is stealing the fruits.
  6. The walk cycle. I cant run away from it I know that's why the walk cycle scene is not finish.
  7. When Makri shot Atun, the branch should fall so that it doesn't look so violent with the blood on ATun's lower breast. Hahahah!
  8. Ermm... what else..oh yeah the part when Makri saw Atun's shadow in the house. I dunno what I'm gonna do about this scene. Some said don't need the shadow some said shadow is fine. Arrghh but I think what jarrold suggested was quite good. He said there should be a silhoette of the window so that the monkey dont look like it's inside the house. Yeah right now, because of the shadow, Atun looks like she's inside the house. SO I think I will do what Jarrold suggested.
  9. Okay what else omg so many to change ah...hmm....oh that's all haha alot to change but at least minor. Phew!
Okay let's talk about the presentation. Yes it's a looooonnngggg draggy presentation with lots of comments and opinion. OKay what do I like?? Hmm... I can't seem to remember....I think Tri's one wa quite nice. Much clearer and better than the last time one. Her Abeeku is nice I like it her background is nice too. SHe needs to make minor changes. Hmm.... Oh yeah Yi Chuin's one was quite nice I think. But I would like to say something about her character. I just realised it now. I think it looks like the character we did for our Go Green CDI project I don't know why. I'm just saying. I feel that there's a bit of biasness as well. She only did one scene that is colored and she got the most praise. I mean her character is nice and all but I didn't even hear at least an 'I think you should work faster.' sentence when clearly she needs to. No offence but it's the fact. I dunno it's just me. There are others who did more who deserves the praise. Call me picky but I'm just voicing out. Okay so anyway, I really Vivien's one! Omggosshh her color is really nice. Now that is what I call a 'YOUR CHARACTER IS REALLY REALLY NICE!' GO VIVIEN! AWESOME WORK! Though you didn't get that many praise but I'm praising you !!GO GO GO! I REALLY LOVE IT! I've said enough. I hope there isn't any riot after what I've said. Like what I said before and I shall say it again. It's just me.

Monday, June 1, 2009

Presentation but didn't present.

I thought that I was going to present today but there wasn't time for everyone to present today. Oh well I can rest today I've been working since Saturday and I only had 3 hours of sleep last night. So far I have found some of the sound effects and fixed some scenes too other than the last one i posted. The only thing I gotta find now is music.
So far from what I saw, a few of the people did not really color their animatics. Some of their animatics are the same as the last time I saw which was last block. It wasn't colored and there is no sound effect. I hope they can finish it on time. Some of them has nice stories it will be a waste if they did not finish it on time. I like Germaine's one. I think she was one of the fastest one and I like the thunder following the guy. Her characters are really cute. Can't wait to see her finished piece. I also like Gina's style. Her sketchy animation goes well with her story. I thought that it made her story more twisted and eerie. Very Tim burtonised. Which I like.
I also like Dion's main character. But he hasn't colored his part yet. So I can't wait to see his finished piece. Naf is the only one who's doing 3D. I thought that she did quite well for the baby's and cat's expression. For me, 3D is alot of pain so I salute Naf for doing 3D and the blend shapes or whatever they call it. I've seen how she worked and I think she put in alot of effort in it. And I disagree with her part that 2d is much better. Yes 2D maybe it will be easier for some of us but I think that since she excels more in 3D, her piece would be more stand out in 3D. Especially the industry now is more into 3D. Yes I must practice my 3D after having said this.
Lastly, I like Kezia's police guy. His uniform is so cool. Haha. And her slight sketchy background goes well with her story too. I think she succeeded making us cringe and feel grossed out when we see the underwear in her character's mouth. She needs to make a few changes here and there but other than that it's gonna be nice!!
As for me,I hope the presentation goes well tomorrow.

Thursday, May 28, 2009

Production again

Before
AfterThis is the part Makri saw the 'monkey' shadow. Amanda suggested that I made ATun smaller and the tree blurer so that it appear further. It does looked better.
Before
After
YES! Atun's hand looked so much better and more like her hands! The previous one looked odd and doesn't look like her hands. Looks like someone's hand. Yay now is better!!!
Before
After
This was the part when Makri found out that Atun was a woman and not a monkey. I made the sky slightly lighter and I changed his hand position. I also changed his cap. Thanks to Amanda I now know what's wrong with the cap. Haha. Before
After This is Makri's bedroom. I added the curtains so that the window doesn't look like a picture frame. The true will be added later. I did some more other than these. These are just those tht I fixed. So right now I'm fixing one scene which is giving me a headache. Argh!!! OKay so that's all now!!

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Starting of production.

I haven't changed my ending par. I guess I'll just show Atun fell on the floor again because Makri punched her. haha. So right now I'm already starting to animate some part. I'm almost done with panel 2-6 from storyboard which is the part when Makri said good morning to his fruits and then Atun stole it. I've animated Makri and Atun already but I have not put the tree yet. Will do that today. I've also animated the lipsynch when Atun was asking for Makri's forgiveness (panel 32).I'm quite proud of it. Haha. That's all I've animated so far. It's alot of work just animating these 2 scenes but it's worth it. I'm quite proud of them. Haha. I've animated some simple scenes during the weekend like the fruits blinking (panel 8) and Atun lying on floor after she got shot (panel 27).

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Animatic Presentation

I guess not sleeping for 2 days paid for my presentation today. Even though my animatic was quite rough -->Without sound effect and music and subtitles, I managed to make my audience laughed. Alan said it's good because he can understand what's happening even without the subtitles. It's nice having to hear my friends burst out laughing at my animatic because that's the kind of reaction I wanted from them. However Alan didn't quite like the ending. He said it's kind of hanging and a man is not suppose to punch a woman even though she looks like a monkey. haha. So he suggested that maybe I should end with Atun not Makri like there should be a scene where Atun fell after Makri punched him. I think the very first part when Atun first stole Makri's fruits was quite vague because no one actually saw Atun com ing. Angie suggested that my window should be lower and bigger. And Kevin suggested that there should be like a warning music when Atun is coming. I am going to put that but this animatic has no music that's why. I think that's about it. Oh yeah there's some error with the part when Makri and Sutrisno were talking. Yeah it wasn't meant to be like that. Something went wrong with the rendering.I'll adjust it.So ....yeah I think that's all and overall I think I did quite well. Yayyy!!!

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Animatics and New storyboard.

I changed my storyboard already. It's only 1 panel. So here is the new panel for the storyboard. Atun looks more like a human right now. Haha. I have already recorded my characters' voice. The voice talent for Makri was actually Nafisah however I didn't used her voice in the end because my other friends said that it was quite unclear and it didn't really suit Makri's voice. But I must say Naf did a good job at it. I'm sorry Naf. So the voice for Makri now is non other than Mr Andreas Masoen. Seriously that guy is good man. I wanted Makri to sound a little bit feminine and sissy and Andreas did a great job. I couldn't stop laughing when we were recording. And not only that but also he has put in more expressions to the voice. Haha. Oh and I made his original voice slightly higher. Atun and Sutrisno's voice was Kezia. I want Atun's voice to be deep because of how she looks--Monkey. haha. Kez did a good job she put in extra spice in it because her Malay sounded americanize. Hahahah! It somehow suit Atun. Haha. I also changed the pitch of her voice I made it lower. Kez also did a great job voicing Sutrisno. She made him sound like a senile old man. Hahahaaha! Okay now back to work.

Sunday, May 10, 2009

Change to background

Okay so I asked Amanda's opinion for my old background. She told me all is fine except for the color. She said that the sapodilla tree should stand out more and not the background tree. After she said that I agreed that my color is all over the place. I'm really not that great in color combination. So I changed the color. I made it less saturated. And I created more depths to the house. Oh and I also changed the style of the tree. hehe. So here it is.
Before After
Oh yeah I also showed Alan my storyboard. He only asked me to change one panel of the story board. Yayyyy!!! I;m glad he said it's clear. Oh yeah and he said I did a great job with Makri and Atun's expression. Yayyyy!!! And here's the link for the expression sheets

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Day 10

We didn't do much yesterday (Monday). We only watched Wallace and Gromit. It was really funny. Inspiration for stop motion. I didn't go class today because Ala only wanted to see group 1 and 2 every tuesday and thrsday and grp 3,4 and 5 wednesday and friday. I'm in grp 3 so I'll be coming to class tomorrow. Well I changed my background already...okay not exactly change I added more trees to the background. And it looked better now than before. I also did expressions fr Makri and ATun. I found this expressions sheet in deviantart and I must sat that it really helped me alot exploring differen kinds of expressions and also my stroke.I did it in photoshop using my tablet pen and I realised that as I drew, my strokes are smoother and I became more confident. WHich is good.Yayyy. I'm getting used to using my tablet. So here are my stuff.
New background
Makri Atun

Saturday, May 2, 2009

Friday

Thursday was a very tiring day because it was presentation all the way. From p3 to animation2. Since I presented already on Wednesday, I just sat down and listen those who have not present present. Honestly speaking, some of the storyboards were really log winded and dry.Some didn't really finish their character designs and all.... Anyway, I'm really trying very hard to do background now. I have researched on kampongs and sapodilla trees. I also checked out this cartoon and animation called 'Bola Kampung' and also 'Upin dan Ipin'. Thanks to Naf, I found out 'Upin dan Ipin'. It's this 3d animation from malaysia. The characters are so CUTE! I must say their animation is really nice. And is kampongs! Good reference! Haha! Anyway here's the kampung i did. It took me quite long. I decided to do vector for background and I'm going for a very simple look.I don't want my background to outshine my characters. I hope is fine. Please comment!

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Day 7

29 April 2009 Wednesday I managed to present today!Yay and I'm really glad that people laughed at my story because that's the kind of reactions I wanted from my audience. Haha. My classmates laughed when I showed Atun to them. It was nice to hear people laughing at my story. Alan just told me to add one more line of conversation. He wants Makri to tell Atun that she's worse than a monkey that's all. Oh yeah and he also wants me to play around with expressions for my characters and work on my background. I really can't draw backgrund very well that's why my background is going to be very simple because the main thing is my characters and the story. I still have to find voice actor. Haha. Oh man so many to do. Okay i'm gonna stop now.

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Day 6

28 April 2009 Tuesday Aaaaa presentation is tomorrow! Okay it's either tomorrow or Thursday but Alan's gonna randomly pick people to present. I better prepare man. Well I kinda hope I present tomorrow. Get it over and done with it and I can start production! I finally designed my characters! There's an additional character too. Makri's friend. I named him Sutrisno. He has to have a name. Here are my characters Makri Atun Makri's friend : Sutrisno I finally finished my storyboard as well. It's 6 pages....I hope is not too many. Well my scenes are simple there's alot of actions that's why it's long. Anyway here it is! Yes that's it! Oh and I also edited the conversation. It's all in the storyboard. I'M FINALLY DONE!!!I'M SO TIREDDDDDD!!!!Hope everything goes well during presentation.

Monday, April 27, 2009

Day 5

27th April 2009 Monday
Today was consultation day. Alan consulted us group by group. We were suppose to show our learning contract to him. I volunteered to show my learning contract to him and my group mates. There were 2 or 3 questions that I did not answered it correctly such as the secondary aim and the age range for my target audience. Alan also suggested that my story needs to have a base meaning there should be a reason why Makri (the man) thought Atun (his neighbor) was a monkey and shot her. He said that maybe it was because Makri's fruit has always been eaten by monkeys that's why he wants to teach those monkeys a lesson. Which also means that there should be more dialogue in my animation.Besides that, Alan thought that Atun should somehow look like a thief or a monkey. And I find that it was a great idea. Therefore I had to change some of my answers for the questionares. Here are the questions which I changed: 1. Who are you telling the story for (primary audience)? Mostly teens and young adults between the age of 18-22. The show will be in Malay language therefore first target will be for the Malays. However, people from other regions or cities will be able to enjoy the show as well as there will be subtitles. The people who watch are mostly who appreciate stories which has silly and funny endings. 4. List the important events of the story. Makri owns a big sapodilla tree in his garden and is proud of it. However, he never got the chance to eat the fruits as it is always stolen by the wild monkeys in the village. He realised that he’s the only villagers with this problem. As a result, Makri couldn’t take it anymore and decided to do something about it. One night, Makri came home and heard rustling outside his house. He saw a moving silhouette which looked like a monkey in his house and started to feel angry and excited at the same time as this will be his chance to finally teach those monkeys a lesson. Makri quietly took his gun, aim at the tree outside and fired his gun. He heard a scream and a loud thud, ran out to see what he has shot. Guess what? It was his neighbor, Atun. Turns out that she was the one who has been stealing his fruits. 6. What traits of the characters in your story are important and how do you intend to establish these traits? Makri (The man) is in his late 30s. He work as a farmer in the field. He is gullible, careless and loves his sapodilla tree very much. These traits will be established by his appearance. Atun (The unlucky woman) is in her early 20s. She looks abit like a monkey and by her appearance, people can tell that she is a proffessional tree climber. Atun lives just next to Makri and also loves to steal his sapodilla fruits. Her traits will be established by her appearance. 10. Does your story need dialog? (write out the dialog) Yes. (Beginning, chasing away the monkeys.) Makri:Shhoooo!! Pegi! Pegi!!Haishhh!!! (Shoo!! Get lost! Get lost! Haishhh!!) (Talking to his neigbor) Makri: Do you have monkey problems?---> (I'm still not sure about this part) Neighbor: (Looked at him as though he’s weird) (Before Makri fired his gun) Makri: Mati je monyet burok! (Die you ugly monkey!) (When Atun get shot) Atun: Oh mamaaaaaaaa!!! ( Mommmyyyyyy!!!) Makri: (Knowing that he succeeded shooting his monkey) Horeeee!! (Yay!!) (When Makri saw that he shot Atun) Makri: Ya Auloh! Aku pikir kau monhey!Maaf Maaf! (Oh my god! I thought you were a monkey! I’m sorry! Sorry!) Well that's all for now. Tri said she'll help me with the translation. Hoho

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Weekend

We didn't do much on Friday. I came to class late at about 1pm as I was suppose to attend some government talk.It was voluntary and I happened to volunteered. The talk was quite dry, well there was some quite interesting. It was also useful because the speaker told us about preparing ourselves in the working world. Like what job interviewers look for when we are being interviewed. He also mentioned that we should not let technology take over us. Anyway,during class, Alan told us that there will be consultation on Monday and Tuesday. I'm group 3 so my consultation is on Monday which means I don't have to come for class on Tuesday which means I have to prepare my presentation for either Wednesday or Thursday. I am still doing my learning contract now. I have to do alot of research also on how those kampong in KL look like. I hope my story can make the audience laugh. So that's about it. The weekend pass so quickly :(

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Day 3

23 April 2009 Thursday Alan decided that all of us should make a blog. Therefore I have posted my first supposed journal enrty. He also said that we need to post other stuff that he will informed us in the future. Now, I am supposed to post the questionares which Alan gave us. So here it is. My chosen Story: Man shoots neighbour who he thought was a monkey Mar 16 2009 By Carla Callaghan A man in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia shot his neighbour after mistaking the woman for a monkey. Police said the man came home to find something rustling in his trees. And when the man fired shots at his tree, he realised he had shot his neighbour who had been picking sapodilla fruit. The unlucky woman was hospitalised with a wound to her stomach. http://www.hamiltonadvertiser.co.uk/news/weird-world/2009/03/16/man-shoots-neighbour-who-he-thought-was-a-monkey-51525-23157723/ ANSWER THE FOLLOWING:
1. Who are you telling the story for (primary audience)? Mostly teens and young adults between the age of 15-30. The show will be in Malay language therefore first target will be for the Malays. However, people from other regions or cities will be able to enjoy the show as well as there will be subtitles. The people who watch are mostly who appreciate stories which has silly and funny endings. 2. What reaction do you want? I want my audience to feel tense and curious in the beginning because they do not know what is going to happen next. However, when it comes to the ending, they should be surprised by what they saw and at the same time finding it odd and funny. 3. Is the narrative omniscient (all seeing) or restrictive (viewed from a single perspective)? (If the narrative is restrictive, whose viewpoint are you using?) It will be restrictive. I will be showing from the man’s point of view. 4. List the important events of the story. Firstly the man came home and heard rustling noise outside his house. He saw moving silhouette which looked like a monkey in his house and started to get suspicious and afraid that the monkey is trying to steal fruits from the tree in his garden, He quietly took his gun aim at the tree outside and fired his gun. He heard a scream and a loud thud, ran out to see what he had shot. And guess what? It was his neighbour. He then rushed her to the hospital. 5. Which aspects of the setting of the story are important (time of day… location… period of history…) and how do you intend to establish these important elements? The place will set in Kuala Lumpur, near the kampong area in the man’s house and his garden. It will be during the night at about 8pm-10pm. There will be text written on the screen before the show start showing the location and time. Also, there will be an establishing shot of the kampong area where Makri lived. 6. What traits of the characters in your story are important and how do you intend to establish these traits? Makri (The man) is in his late 20s. He work as a farmer in the field. He is careless and a little bit paranoid. Loves his garden very much. These traits will be establiched by how he looked and dress. Atun ( The woman) is in her early 20a. She is the unlucky housewife who has nothing to do. She lives just next to Makri. She likes to climb tree during her free time and her favourite fruit is sapodilla fruit. Her traits will look very feminine in contrast to her skill in climbing trees. She looks like she can't climb tree but she can. 7. In what order are the important events (step 4 above) covered? Is it a strictly linear sequence of events in time, or does the story contain any flashbacks or other interruptions to the sequence of events? Story will be linear at first however after the credits, there will be a flashback of why the woman’s silhouette looks like a monkey. 8. How does the story flow, does the pace change? Does it contain a surprise? Consider your answers to 1 and 2 above when making your response. Pace does not change. There will be element of surprise. 9. How will you use sound to help all your responses to 5-8 above? The rustling sound from the tree is important as that was the thing that made Makri startled. The music when Makri was suspicious will be dark and mellow. The loud ‘Bang!’ from the gun will be important. Atun’s scream and loud thud is also essential in this story. Footsteps sound will be put in to show that Makri ran out of the house to see the ‘monkey’ he had shot. A comedic music will be played when he saw that it was Atun who he shot. The screen will fade to black and an ambulance siren will be heard. 10. Does your story need dialog? (write out the dialog) Yes. (Before Makri fired his gun) Makri: Matek sono monyet! (Die you monkey!!) (When Atun got shot) Atun: Oh mamaaaaaaaaa! (Mommyyyyyyyy!!!) Makri:(Knowing that he succeeded shooting his target) Horeee!!(Yay!) (When Makri saw that he shot Atun) Makri: Ya Auloh! Aku ingat kau moneyt! Maaf! Maaf! (Oh my god!I thought you’re a monkey! I’m sorry! I'm sorry!)

Day 2

22 April 2009 Wednesday Today was the second day of Project 3 and just like what I have predicted, it was going to be something like FYP. Well I guess the good thing is we will know the gist of FYP. So this is like a preparation-slash-training. Also, the time line for the animation is 3 minutes maximum. So should be easier (but still tough) than FYP since we only have 2 months. Alan just informed us today that each of us are suppose to either keep a journal or a blog. Yesterday, Alan formed us into groups of 5. Sadly enough, we didn’t get to choose our group members. I was quite fine with mine because the this is individual work. My group consists of Angie, Candice, Ting Yu and Natalya. Alan then told us to find 3 or 4 weird stories which will be the story for our final animation product. The slightly good thing about this project is that we don’t need to think of a whole fresh story. Thinking of a fresh new original story, to me, is pretty tough. So, I guess having to read weird stories and picking one of them was pretty entertaining. I didn’t know that weird stuff has been going on in this world. Well, I know there are weird stuff going on but not this weird! We were suppose to present in our groups first telling them which one we picked and we suggesting what kind of style will be nice and all. I really like Ting Yu’s story the part where a hippopotamus accidentally ate a dwarf during a circus performance because the dwarf landed in its mouth after jumping on a trampoline. I can’t wait for her final animation. My favorite one from Candice was the one when 2 robbers tried to rob a place and one of them shouted “Nobody move!” and when his partner moved, he shot his partner. Angie’s one was also funny. This man kept whistling the tune of “Adam’s family.” Irritating his neighbors, they called the police and he was jailed for 20 weeks. Stupid! Natalya didn’t come so I don’t know what’s her story. For me, I picked the one where a man accidentally shot his neighbor thinking that she’s a monkey. I really love that! After that, all of us suppose to remember all of our member’s stories and then we will present as a group and Alan will asked us what’s our group members stories. After hearing all my classmates presenting their stories, it was hilarious what stupid thing human can do. Some of the stories are not weird but sweet and scary. Scare and yet funny at the same time. For example, the story whereby a woman hung herself on a tress outside her house but nobody saved her because it was during Halloween therefore they thought that she was a prop. I mean, it was suppose to be frightening and sad but the whole thing was somehow funny. Andreas’s one was disgusting and disturbing with the whole liquid assets. Can’t wait for his animation. There were some with sexual contents such as Vivien’s one. A man and woman died because they were having sex on a rooftop and the rooftop fell. Hahaha! Must be really embarrassing! There were other nice and stranger ones but if I go on, this journal will never end. Next, Alan explained to us about the learning contract which I’m still quite confuse about it. Thankfully, he’s going to explain further to us another day. Before class ended, he asked us to fill in the questions he gave us yesterday to help us work on our animation better.

Day 1

21 April 2009 Tuesday Oh wow holiday just ended and now we have mjor project 3. Oh well. I'm still in holiday mood. I went to Bali for 3 days with my friends during the holiday and it was awesome. I just wished we could have stayed longer. I really miss the fun and freedom I had. So now is back to work again! Joy! Today Alan randomly grouped us into group of 5. My group consists of Angie, Natalya, Candice and Ting Yu. Thank God this project isn't group work therefore I had no problems with the group. However, just for today, we are suppose to do a group exercise. My group leader is Angie and we are suppose to draw lots and worked on the story we picked. Our story was about this man who was attacked by a stranger. the stranger blindfolded and tied him up and removed his shoes and socks then tickling it. The man kept laughing and after the both of them had a bried conversation, the attacker untied him and ran away leaving the man's wallet and possesion still intact. Pretty strange stuff. So what we're suppose to do was to fill answer some questions which Alan gave us. We were then to present it in a powerpoint format. I feel that the questions helped us to think more about the story like how is our chracterd and what kind of story we want to create. My group decided to create an element of surprise at the end. It will start dark and creepy at first because the man was walking home alone in a dark alley. We decide to make our character half drunk because he just came back from a party. Music will be eerie until the attacker came and started tying the man up. We thought that the attacker were those people who are bored or being dared by friends to do stupid stuff. After the presentation, Alan told us to look for 4 weird stories for homework. That stories will be for our project 3 animation piece.